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Science Y5 – Living and non-living things – week 5
FOOD CHAINS
Truth to Teach (Source)
Matthew 6:26 ‘Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than
they?’
To appreciate that God has made provision on earth for his creation.
To learn that food chains show feeding relationships within an ecosystem.
To learn words required to identify food chains.
To recognise that nearly all food chains begin with a green plant.
Way to Work (Means)
1. Review the previous lessons.
2. Read and discuss the Bible verse above.
3. Introduce the words required to create food chains: – ‘food chain’, ‘producer’, ‘consumer’,
‘primary producer’, ‘secondary producer’, ‘primary consumer’, ‘secondary consumer’.
Explain that plants are called ‘primary producers’ and animals are called ‘consumers’. There
can be primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary consumers.
Ensure that the children remember the meaning of ‘herbivore’, ‘carnivore’ and ‘omnivore’.
Talk about the ‘producer’ e.g. grass ‘prey’ e.g. rabbit ‘predator’ e.g. fox
Show arrows which indicate the direction of energy flow in a food chain.
4. Give each child a card from a bag and ask him/her to find two or three other children with
cards bearing the names of living organisms which would complete their food chain.
Eg Grass, cow, humans
Rose, greenfly, blue tit, hawk
Lettuce, slug, thrush, hawk
Fly, spider, bird, hawk
Acorn, squirrel, great horned owl
5. Gather to review these chains. Sing the song, ‘I know an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly’.
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